Heavenly Ambitions : America's Quest to Dominate Space.
Johnson-Freese, Joan.
Heavenly Ambitions : America's Quest to Dominate Space. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (191 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- 1 Space: The Final Cold War Frontier -- 2 The Evolution of U.S. Space Policy -- 3 Space Weapons: Fact and Fiction -- 4 Strategic Communications: What Message Is the United States Trying to Convey? -- 5 Diplomacy and Arms Control: Limits and Opportunities -- 6 Globalizing Space -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate, and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate--just as no one nation's military dominates the world's oceans.
9780812202366
Astronautics and state-United States.
Space race-United States.
Electronic books.
TL789.8.U5 -- J649 2009eb
629.410973
Heavenly Ambitions : America's Quest to Dominate Space. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (191 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- 1 Space: The Final Cold War Frontier -- 2 The Evolution of U.S. Space Policy -- 3 Space Weapons: Fact and Fiction -- 4 Strategic Communications: What Message Is the United States Trying to Convey? -- 5 Diplomacy and Arms Control: Limits and Opportunities -- 6 Globalizing Space -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate, and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate--just as no one nation's military dominates the world's oceans.
9780812202366
Astronautics and state-United States.
Space race-United States.
Electronic books.
TL789.8.U5 -- J649 2009eb
629.410973